DDOS attack on Russian Post

Only in one of the comments about the Minister of Communications, I praised the Russian Post and its tracking how bad hackers are:

Since July 10, when trying to find out the status of a postal item, the server returns an error about the inaccessibility of the database.







By the way, it should be noted that they do not even have a primitive protection against automation in the form of a captcha :-(

')

Sadly



The official text here:

Hackers "brought down" service ...



UPDATE (after 3 hours):

At the moment the service is already available (sort of).



UPDATE (on the morning of July 12, 2012):

Error again: Base not available



UPDATE (on the morning of the 13th):

The service still does not work.

By the way, yesterday received a concise answer from their support:



Dear Ttttttttt!

Currently, access to the OASU RPO is difficult. Try to use OASU RPO later.

FSUE Russian Post



> Hello

> The second day as the mail tracker returns an error after entering

> Shipping ID: Database Unavailable

> (http://russianpost.ru/rp/servise/ru/home/postuslug/trackingpo)

> See the screenshot in the attachment.

> Please fix it.

> Ttttttttt